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Show BREED FOR EGG PRODUCTION High-Laying Hens Cannot Be Depended Depend-ed On to Produce Chicks as Good as Themselves. The results of breeding for egg production pro-duction at the Ontario experiment station sta-tion are an interesting supplement to the work so long carried qn at the Maine station. It will be remembered that the conclusion of the Maine station sta-tion was that hens with high laying records cannot be depended upon to produce chicks as good as themselves, even when the males of the flock are of the same stock. The Ontario station concludes that many 200-egg hens are not worth much as breeders of 200-egg pullets, but a few appear as if their pullets were out of the ordinary and some of their sons have been very good breeders. breed-ers. In other words, the power of transmitting trans-mitting the heavy-laying quality is possessed pos-sessed by some individuals, but not by others. This is essentially the Idea on which the Maine station Is now working work-ing with the aim of selecting and using the birds which have this transmitting quality. It was found by the Ontario station that the chicks hatched from these selected se-lected birds began to lay much earlier in the fall and laid in November about five times as many eggs as common pullets. Their excellence was largely in their power to lay eggs In the fall and winter. In the summer the common com-mon pullets were considered about as good layers as the others. |